Welcome to the first installment of Within the Shadows, a series of videos that will give you a peek behind the curtain of some of the stories in SHADOWS OVER MAIN STREET VOLUME 2. We hope that you enjoy these videos and the insights offered by the authors. And please remember to follow along with us on Facebook and Twitter to see all this kind of content the moment it becomes available!

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Turns out you can go home again, and the shadows will be waiting for you. Bram Stoker Award® nominated editors Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward bring you Volume 2 of their best selling, critically-acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian anthology series. Within these pages, you’ll discover:

The stars are right! You’ve seen the signs! One of 2015’s best-selling and most celebrated horror anthologies returns. The second edition of Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror rises from the depths on June 17th!

“Shadows Over Main Street demonstrates most convincingly that fear lurks in our towns and villages, in darkened alleys, and in the shadowy human heart. This anthology represents a dynamic cross section of contemporary horror.” –-Laird Barron, Bram Stoker Award winning author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

“Shadows Over Main Street is a masterful blend of stories fit for both die-hard Lovecraft fans and readers new to the genre. Each and every tale is wickedly delicious.” –Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Fall of Night and V-Wars.

The preliminary Bram Stoker Awards ballot has been released–and we’re thrilled to see Shadows Over Main Street made the list in the anthologies category! We’d like to thank everyone who has helped make the book an unbelievable success.

And best of luck to all the other folks on the list! Some outstanding work came out during the past year.

Earlier this year, the publisher of the Shadows Over Main Street series announced that it was shutting down. This came as a surprise to a lot of folks. However, we had seen the writing on the wall and were already working on getting our series back from the press before the news came down. Ever since then, we have been working to secure a new home for the series.

We’re happy to tell you that, although we cannot yet make a formal announcement with details, the future of Shadows Over Main Street is looking good. Volumes 1 and 2 will see the light of day, we can assure you of that.

So stay tuned for more information. But we just wanted to let you know…the shadows have not fled.

Yes, that’s right. The wildly talented Luke Spooner has done it again and rendered a beautiful and creepy piece of cover art for the second book in the Shadows Over Main Street anthology series. Take a gander at this! (Click it to enlarge)

We’ll share the full cover layout when it’s ready but for now you can gaze longingly at this cover art. But that kid on the bike? Yeah, don’t stare too long into his eyes.

We are very excited to announce the acceptance of the first story for inclusion in the second volume of Shadows Over Main Street. The first brave author to step into the shadows is none other than William Meikle! (www.williammeikle.com) His tale, “The Longdock Air,” will appear with many others in what promises to be a stunning follow-up to the top-selling first volume of small-town Lovecraftian stories.

Stay tuned for more updates as we have them. It’s a long way ’til 2016 but it’s already getting interesting!